Chapter Twenty-Seven: Mobilize! A clever plan
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Gin beat furiously at the cage bars before finally collapsing back onto the floor. Sango took his place with Yuki, Ryuumaru, and Kagemaru taking his place.
"It's no use." Sango gasped, resting her hands on her knees.
"There has to be a way!" Gin insisted.
"But where?" Kagemaru replied.
"Shhh!" Ryuumaru snapped, listening to the faint growl of...of dogs? At the exact moment Kakashi and Naruto rounded the corner.
Pakkun halted outside of the cell.
"Is this it?" Kakashi asked.
The ninken nodded.
"Hey!" Sango snapped, "Are you looking for Sakura?"
"How did you know?" Naruto asked.
"Kabuto took her! You have to hurry!" She replied.
"Pakkun?" Kakashi asked.
The ninken nodded, they were telling the truth.
"Stand back." He told them.
The nodded, pressing against the far wall of the cell. A moment later the Raikiri tore thorugh the cells.
"Let's go!" Pakkun growled, taking off down the hall.
Sakura cried out as she was tossed against a nearby wall. Curling against herself, she prepared for the next blow as Kabuto raised his hand, now gripping a cruelly curved kunai.
"Now...Haruno Sakura," He spat, "You die!"
As the blade arced toward her, Sakura threw her arm up--at the same moment Pakkun dived between her and the blade, latching onto the nin's arm.
"Pakkun!" She cried, knocking the blade from Kabuto's arm with one well placed kick.
Slamming the dog against the wall, Kabuto let the injured ninken fall to the floor, kicking him away.
"Bastard!" Sakura cried, latching onto her enemy's leg in an attempt to shove him aside.
He flailed, attempting to shake her loose. But he made the mistake of grabbing onto her hair: Sakura turned, clamping her teeth onto his arm. She didn't give a fuck if it was primitive, under-handed or childish. She just wanted to hurt him-the closest to blood lust she had ever come. And she hated to admit it: But she liked the feel of his skin breaking and the taste of his blood.
"Bitch!" He cried, pulling her up by her hair. But Sakura held on, fixing her teeth even more firmly.
"Sakura!"
She knew it was Naruto. And a moment later she slammed into him as Kabuto wrenched her loose.
The blonde caught her, but before he could recover from the shock, she had leapt back at the nin'i.
"I'm going to kill you!" She screeched, chakra moulding around her fists.
"I'm getting sick of this!" Kabuto cried in exasperation.
"I'll fix that!" Sakura replied as she threw a right hook.
"Sakura!" Naruto cried, moving to help her. But Kakashi yanked him back.
"Naruto, she's in a complete frenzy! If you get in the way, she'll tear through you without realizing who it is! She's completely lost herself to blood-lust."
He glanced at the kunoichi--clothed in a button up shirt that barely skimmed the top of her thighs--throwing hate-filled attacks and blocking with an almost evil calculated cunning. It was like it wasn't even Sakura anymore--she had the same desperation in her eyes that Sasuke used to have, and the same evil that Orochimaru's did. She was blood-spattered, but whether it was her's or Kabuto's he didn't know. But he did know it only added to the eerie malice about her.
"We have to stop her." Naruto replied.
"Yeah. Look, in her state her chakra control will be compromised. We'll just have to risk it." He replied, shooting her comrades a look that ordered them to stay back.
"Scatter!" He shouted, assured they would stay out of the way.
Naruto latched onto her left arm and Kakashi restrained her by her right. She fought, kicking and struggling to reach a fleeing Kabuto.
Kakashi felt it before Naruto did and shouted: "Brace!"
A moment later an invisible shockwave of energy slammed against them, sending them flying. But thankfully it also exhausted Sakura beyond her limits and she sank harmlessly to the floor.
They crept toward her cautiously, Kakashi helping her to her feet.
She was cold...in the same way Sasuke was. She was damaged...maybe even broken. And that's what the first taste of blood could do to you.
TBC